Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-05-29
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in an hour. You had better sleep al
Luck's tonight; you might get farther,
but Luck's is u good place to stop, anG
they will look after you well there, anu
Won can be off by 3 in the morning and Ok
at Heidelberg by 10 tomorrow night and
in Pretoria by the next afternoon, u DC
hustled of to make the necessary prepAra-
tions.
ooh. John" said Bessie, beginning to
cry, II don't like your going az all among
those wild Beers. IOu are an English ON
Ger and if they tud you out they wlllshoot
you. You don't know what brutes some
of them are when they think 1t safe TO ne
50. oh, John. John, l can't bear your
going"
Cheer up, my dear" said John, and
for Heavens sake stop crying, for l cant
bear it. | must 20. Your uncle would
never forgive me If I III dR.S and, what Is
more, | should never for nyselI. Ihere
is nobody else to 20, a d leave
jess to be shut mp thu p Pretoria-
for months perhaps. As D RISK, OF
course there is q bit rlSE, u L
must take it. l am not OF risks
at least | used not TO bel you v
made a bit of coward OF Bessie dear.
There, give me q kiss, old and come
and help me 10 pack my Please
God, / shall get back all ~, and jess
with me, ina week from noV
Whereon Bessie, being 4 enSlble and
eminentlY practical young Nonan, dried
her tears, and with n cheerful luce, albeit
her heart was heavy enough, SET to work
with 4 will TO make every preparation she
could think of. The few clothes John was
yoing 10 take with him were packed IN a
Gladstone bag, and the box that was ar
ranged underneath the movable
seat in the Cape cart was filled
with the tinued provisions that are
so much used in South Africa, aud all the
other little arrangements, small in them
selves, but of such infinite Importance to
the traveller i'm a wild country, were duly
attended to by her careful hands. Then
came a hurried meal, and before II was
swallowed the cart was ut the door, with
Jantje hanging rs usual o. to the heads oil
the two front horses, and the stalwart
Zulu, OF rather Swat boy, Mouti, whose
sole luggage appeared tOeOnsist ola bundle
of aSsegaiS and sticks wrapped upina grass
mat, and who. hot Us il was, was enyeloped
in a vast military great-cOat, lounging
placidly alongside.
Goodbye, John, dear John, said
Bessie, kissing him again and again, and
striving to keep back the tears that, do
what she could, would gather in her eyes.
''GOoG.by, my love"
God bless you. dearest" he said,
simply, kissing her in answer; goodbye.
Mr.. Croft, I hope To zee You again IN a
week, " and he was i'm the cart and had
gathered up the long and intricate-lOoking
reius. Jantie let go the horses and gave 4
whO0p. MOuti, giving mp ~stargazIng, sud
denly became an animated being and
scrambled into the cart with surprising
alacrty; the horses sprang forward ut q
hand gallOp, and were soon hidden from
Bessie's dim sight in cloud Of dust. Pool
Bessie! it was a hard trail; and now that
John had gone and her tears could not dis.
treSs him, she went into her room and gave
way To them freely enough.
John reached LuCk'S, an establishment
on the Pretoria road that happily combine,
the characteristics OF IN inn, a shop, anC
a farmhouse, such ~ are TO be- met with %
sparsely populated countries. IL was n.
an inn and not q farmhouse, strictly Speak
iug, nor was II altogether a shop, thOugl
there was a store attached. Ii tn,
traveller were anxious 70 obtain accom-.
mediation Tor man and beast at a place o.
this stamp he had 10 proceed warily, so t.
speak, lest he should he requested to move
Oh. lie must advance, hat in hand, and
ask TO be taken in = Il favor, rs many
high. handed traveller, accustomed To the
obscVuiOus attentions of mine host, y has
learnedt to his cost. There is no such dread
full autOcrat ~ your half-and-halt inn,
keeper in South Africa, and then he Is NJ
completely master Of the situation. II
you cont like it, 90 and be id L
you" is his simple answer to the remOu.
STANCES of the Infatuated yOyager. An,
then you must either knock under and lOOE
~ though you liked it, or track ON into On,
''unhOstelled' wilderness. Tn this Oc
CasiOn, however, John Jared well enough
To begin with, he knew the owners of h.
place, who were very civil people if lp
preached in an humble spirit, and lrther
more, he found everybody in such 0 stat,
of uupleasurable excitement tn. they
were only too glad TO get another English
man to talk matters over with. Mt tina
their inflammation amounted to much how
ever. There was u rumOr Of the BrJnEt
Spruit disaster and other TumOrS OF sbs 10
vestment OF Pretoria, and of the advance %
large bodies Of Beers TO take possession o
the pass over the Drakensberg, known a
Laing's Mex, but there was no definite IN
telllgence.
"YOu won't get into Pretoria" slid on,
melancholy man, 80 it's no use trying
The Beers will Just catch you and kill you
and there will be an end OF it. You haC
better leave the girl to look after hcrsel
and 90 back to MOOifOnteiR.r
But this was not Johns view Of the mat
ter. Well be said, "at any rate III
have a try" Indeed, he had a sort of bull
dog sentiment about him that led him Il
believe that, If he made up his mind to dC
n thing, he would do it somehow, unles,
he should he PHYSICALLY incapacitated by
circumstances beyond his own control. Il
is wonderful how tar a mood Of TINS s0rt
will take q Indeed, it is The wide
spread possession of this sentiment that ha>
made England what she is. Now il is be
ginning to die down and be legiSlated OuI
of our national character. and the result,
are already commencing to appear in the
ncipient decay of our power. We cannot
govern Ireland. IL is beyond us: let Ireland
have Home Rule! We cannot cope with
our imperial responsibilities; let them bt
cast of; and so ON. The Englishmen o
fifty years ago did not talk like this. Well,
every nation becomes emaSculated sooner
or later, that seems 10 be the universal tate
and it appears that it is our lot To be emas,
culated, not by the want ot law, hut by q
plethora Of it. This country was made,
not by governments, but mostly in despite
Of them by the independent efforts Of q
series Of individuals. The tendency nova,
DAYS is to merge the individual in the
government, and to limit and even forci,
bly, destroy personal enterprise and re-
sPOnsibility. Everything is to b. legislated
for or legislated against. The system is
only in its bud as yet. When il blooms
the empire will lose touch of its individual
atoms and become = vast soulleSs machine.
which will first get out order, then break
down, and, last of all, break up. We owe
more to sturdy, determined, u~neOnviucible
EnoliShmen like JOhn Nal than Wa r.al;,a